Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Decennial Record the Class of Eighty-Eight Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut The usual apologies must be offered for the long delay in the appear ance of the Decennial Record. For this, however, an effort has been made to make amends as much as possible, in that the data given may be assumed correct to June, 1899. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.